FC Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 I have three teenaged girls- 15, 17, and 19. I'm glad to have them here for Christmas. I decided to try to recreate Christmas Eve day as I experienced it when I was a kid, for them. The Eagles Hall in Watertown, SD, made up paper bags of peanuts in the hull, candy canes, apples, and oranges for the kids. We'd stand in line in the cold to get a bag. We'd then go next door to the theater and watch a free matinee. What wonderful memories! So I'm going to make up bags for the girls and play Shirley Temple as Heidi. I love that movie. Too bad I don't have an aluminum Christmas tree with the tricolor light wheel. What's everyone else doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdm1962 Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 1+ on the aluminum Christmas Tree and tricolored light wheel. Sounds like a great time. A Merry Christmas to all. Ralph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzRednek Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 1+ on the aluminum Christmas Tree and tricolored light wheel. Sounds like a great time. A Merry Christmas to all. Ralph I made a killing on Ebay with an aluminum tree and the rotating light about 2 years ago. Pulled it out of my grandparent's attic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted December 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 Let me guess- a couple hundred for the tree, and about $75 for the light wheel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 I am hangin with the Hippy and we are going to ride around looking at the lights. Merry Christmas and a fine new year to all. Karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzRednek Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Let me guess- a couple hundred for the tree, and about $75 for the light wheel? Got it backward!! Got close to, two hundred for the light and the tree went to a local buyer for about 75. The creep that bought the light tried to return it well after Christmas. He bought it in November and tried to return it sometime in January. After I refused the package twice by the time he figured out I wasn't going to refund his money it was past the time frame for leaving feedback. I was literally shocked after PayPal apparently sided with me. PayPal froze the money in my account and about 30 days later with no explanation it was back in my account. The buyer eventually had a few negatives from sellers claiming he was robbing items for parts and returning it. I had a box of 1940 and 50's tree ornamants that got left behind with X-wife. Hurts thinking about what I could have made on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 When I was between jobs years ago, we went around the house looking for stuff to ebay. One thing that went was an old Christmas ornament. It was a blown glass Santa, about 2" tall with a small break at the very top where the hook goes, which I showed in the auction. My parents gave it to me when they cleaned out all their crap while moving once. It was just one of those ornaments in the box of ornaments that went on the tree every year when I was a kid. I think it went for about $60. I was shocked. Put it in a box, mailed it off to the Left Coast. They sent me an email with a pic of the box, which looked like the mail truck drove over it. I had wrapped it in a tube of cardboard inside the box and it survived. The people who bought it said it was German and made in the 1920's. They owned a Christmas store. Everyone was happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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